You’d see your fault, nor try to be admired;
For they who read such books can always tell
The fault within, and read the mind as well.” 170
William had heard of hiring books before;
He knew she read, and he inquired no more.
On him the subject was completely lost;
What he regarded was the time and cost;
Yet that was trifling—just a present whim:
“Novels and stories! what were they to him?”
With such slight quarrels, or with those as slight,